The Shield Of Achilles (+misc. Notes)

The Shield of Achilles (+misc. notes)

Homer: Are you aware that many Iliad characters are first time fathers? That all of them in one way or another misses a big chunk of their children’s life or never gets to see it at all?

Also Homer: leaves and never elaborates

A doodle for random parenting shiz basically. Order from left to right, top to bottom:

-Menelaus carrying a sleepy Hermione. @hermesmoly I was drawing this when the request came lolol

-Achilles and baby Neo. I don’t know if it’s a thing in other places but hanging on father’s leg and then let him moves it back and forth like an impromptu swing is quite a favorite pastime activity here.

-Odysseus and baby Telemachus who was trying to be a helicopter

-Hector and baby Astyanax when he was born.

-Probably Agamemnon and his three daughters, but I have no official designs. He tried to scold them and was failing. Tbh I feel like Agamemnon would be the type to cosplay buff Bubble from Powerpuff girls along with his daughters. I know he’s not that great but me delulu.

-Patroclus and Neoptolemus. Yes Patroclus contributed in raising him as well, the kid had 2 dads. Fight me.

I started watching Troy: Fall of a City because, why not? I knew it wasn't that good according to my friends who have seen it, and they know all about the Trojan War or epic Trojan cycle. But I wanted to see it mainly because I found out that Penthesilea is there, and I love her, but when I saw her in the series, my heart broke.

Penthesilea in the series:

That's not my girl.And I don't want it to sound like an insult to the actress, she did well, I'm just not happy with the series itself

Respectfully, if I would live in Ancient Greece I would be SIGNIFICANTLY more scared by Dionysus than by Hades.

Neoptolemus/Pyrrhus halloween costume

every day